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Software Engineer 5 - Production Operations

NetflixWarsaw, Poland
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Posted on: 27 Sep 2026

Job Description

Game Lifecycle Applications: project and release management applications and shared components used by the applications. Games Delivery and Release: ingestion pipelines and developer tools. Work cross-functionally to build, test, deploy, and launch backend services that operationalize our workflows at scale. Participate in product reviews and team meetings, providing technical insight. Help scope, estimate, and prioritize between conflicting needs. Evaluate new technologies and approaches to streamline and improve our rapid application development tooling and conventions. Participate in our on-call rotation and lead incident reviews. Flexible scheduling or coverage accommodations can be supported where appropriate. Effectively communicate complex technical issues and solutions to stakeholders through written and verbal channels. Live company values, actively engage in team discussions and provide mentorship while holding the team accountable for collective standards. Experience architecting, building, and operating resilient, highly-available, high-scale, low-latency microservices in production environments, with a track record of ensuring high availability, fault tolerance, and performance. Proficiency with gRPC, GraphQL, or RESTful API design and implementation, and relational and non-relational data stores. Recent proficiency with Java, C#, or other OO programming languages with a solid understanding of OO design principles, concurrency, multi-threading, performance tuning, and observability. Ability to proactively describe complex technical concepts to a variety of stakeholders, driving conversations and decisions through written and/or verbal communication. Demonstrated capability for independent action, ownership, and effective collaboration. Ability to recognize, communicate, address and lead technical improvements as part of the roadmap. Capability to collaborate across backend and UI engineers, product designers, product managers, and users to understand user needs and determine appropriate solutions. Ability to identify business opportunities that positively impact the organization's goals. Adaptability to work across different layers of the stack or different domains to assist team members when needed. Interest in working closely with UI engineers, UX designers, and product managers to deliver reliable and performant services that meet user needs. Experience working full stack, with skills in frontend and backend development, and openness to contributing to both areas when necessary. Experience creating platforms, tools, or infrastructure for engineers, with a focus on understanding their needs and designing long-term solutions. Experience in storage or media processing domains, in observability platforms, or experience working with or as SREs. Experience developing build tooling, delivery automation, and self-service infrastructure tools. Experience building software and distributed systems for media production and/or distribution workflows.
Software Engineer 5 - Production OperationsNetflix